Hacker News: jrepinc

New comment by jrepinc in "AV1's open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec"

jrepinc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:49:43 +0000

Yup software patents are terribly bad, we need to abolish them https://endsoftwarepatents.org/

KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers an Impressive Edge over Gnome 50 on Ubuntu 26.04

jrepinc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:20:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-gnome-kde

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531614

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 Released

jrepinc — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:24:46 +0000

Article URL: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.0-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502241

Points: 64

# Comments: 8

Qt 6.11 Released

jrepinc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:05:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.11-released

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487758

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by jrepinc in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

jrepinc — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:51:42 +0000

That's why I am so glad to only be on Mastodon these days, the true social network, without any rich sociopath billionare or some vulture crapitalist behind it. That keeps Mastodon form becoming the attention/propaganda platforms that all these for profit platforms really are.

New comment by jrepinc in "Plasma 6.6 Released"

jrepinc — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:35:33 +0000

And openSUSE Tumblweed has KDE Plasma 6.6 now, runing great so far:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260216 KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0 Qt Version: 6.10.2 Kernel Version: 6.18.9-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland

KDE Plasma 6.6

jrepinc — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:20:45 +0000

Article URL: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050064

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by jrepinc in "KDE Plasma 6.6 Released"

jrepinc — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:46:40 +0000

Oh yeah, OCR in screenshot app, love this, And it is completely local using Tesseract. Also love the new theme export. Can't wait until KDE Plasma 6.6. hits openSUSE Tumbleweed

New comment by jrepinc in "Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace"

jrepinc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:00:01 +0000

Not just them, all BigTech/GAFAM are

Vulkan Introduces Roadmap 2026 and New Descriptor Heap Extension

jrepinc — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:07:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-introduces-roadmap-2026-and-new-descriptor-heap-extension

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733366

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jrepinc in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

jrepinc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:13:33 +0000

Yeah HDMI Forum shameful behavior in a way reminds me of those evil greedy scientific publishing houses. Standards and science should be open and free as in freedom to access AND implement and not gated behind some obscene monetary or other forms of restrictions, like patents. In this day and age these restrictions have no place and should be abolished.

New comment by jrepinc in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

jrepinc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:59:44 +0000

Yup LG was one of my contenders, but once I found out about this MS junk it was immediately off the list.

New comment by jrepinc in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

jrepinc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:54:08 +0000

And even better make it as open as Steam Deck/Machine and allow to install any GNU/Linux distribution onto it maybe even something with KDE Plasma Bigscreen or something similar if desired.

New comment by jrepinc in "Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems"

jrepinc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:53:28 +0000

Another opensource core design is XiangShan https://xiangshan.cc/en/

New comment by jrepinc in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

jrepinc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:35:54 +0000

Looks like Valve also needs to start making SteamTV, just a TV without any "smart" spyware/adware OS. Until then.. this blackfriday I ordered a TV that by miracle even has a DisplayPort input (Hisense 65U8Q). Unfortunately still "smart" TV but at least it does not have US-based OS but European made VIDAA which hopefully provides much less spyware than the US-alternatives, if it properly respects the EU GDPR laws. Hopefully Hisense starts/inspires a bigger movement towards DisplayPort and this HDMI mafia dies as soon as possible.